Creative minds at 121 Oregon arts organizations will be empowered by $1,031,593 in fiscal year 2019 Operating Support Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission. Ranging from $3,000 to $29,750, the grants are available to nonprofit organizations with arts at the core of their mission and budgets over $150,000*. “We often hear that these are the…
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Film Musician Donald Foster
(Photo courtesy of HDCM) If you’ve seen LaLa Land, War Horse, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there is a good chance you have been swept away in a film moment under Donald Foster’s musical influence. Since Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), he has…
Cascade School of Music Presents Astronaut & Drummer Jim Wetherbee
(Photo courtesy of Cascade School of Music) Jim Wetherbee, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, will present on the relationship between two of his passions, space and music on November 9. Wetherbee will be available for autograph signing and is donating a pair of autographed drumsticks and a piece of space travel memorabilia to be…
OSU-Cascades Alum Returns to North America After Seven Years Abroad
(Artwork above: Muse 3 by Katrina Slade) Katrina Slade (formerly Sentgeorge) is now living in Canada, her fourth country of residence since leaving Oregon after graduate school in 2011. World-travelling OSU-Cascades alum Katrina Slade has made a decision that some might consider radical. She has left the stability of a teaching career to pursue her…
Ural Thomas & The Pain + Fortune’s Folly
(Photo courtesy of Parallel 44) at Volcanic Theatre November 3 at 8:30pm Parallel 44 Presents the Classic Soul wizardry of Ural Thomas & the Pain with Eugene’s Funk/Rockers Fortune’s Folly on Saturday November 3 at Volcanic Theatre Pub. This is going to be an amazing night of inspiringly soulful live music. Ural Thomas & the…
Shaniko Ragtime Festival in Shaniko & Madras
The 16th annual Shaniko Ragtime and Vintage Music Festival will take place on Octpber 5-7. The music event begins Friday, October 5 at 1pm with Keith Taylor, event founder, at the Historic Shaniko Schoolhouse. From 1-6pm musicians Keith Taylor, Vicki Cox, Meg Graf, Clare Kennedy and Lance Maclean will perform. The end set at 4:30pm…
Maestro Minute Audios present Personal Insights into 41st Festival Season
(Photo courtesy of Sunriver Music Festival) Sunriver Music Festival’s Music Director George Hanson has brought back his popular Maestro Minutes, a series of short audio previews of the season, to share with patrons of this year’s festival. They can be heard at the Festival’s website: www.sunrivermusic.org/maestro-minute. Each audio preview will share personal insights from Maestro…
An Instrumental Decade
(Photo courtesy of High Desert Chamber Music) Fifteen years into a career spanning from the San Diego Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to recording for the television and film industry, professional violinist Isabelle LaForêt Senger visited Bend. Looking for a change of scenery, she saw an opportunity in Central Oregon to bring what she…
Bend Cultural Tourism Commission
Grant Review Meeting June 11 at 9am The Bend Cultural Tourism Commission is pleased to announce they will review grant applications for the 2018 grant cycle. The Commission invited applications from organizations that will help us meet the goal of bringing people to Bend, and supporting our local cultural activities – the priority is projects…
Tower Theatre Member & Sponsor Event
Wednesday, May 23 at 5pm the Tower Theatre is announcing the 2018-19 Live at the Tower Season to our members, sponsors, volunteers and community supporters like you. Everyone is invited to the historic venue in downtown Bend for the exclusive unveiling of headlining performers and international artists coming to the Tower during the upcoming season….